At a Monday work session, conversation among school and district administrators in Colorado Springs centered around drug testing at Cheyenne High School.

An Aug. 3 article by Sue McMillan of The Gazette provided the following details:

Amid some frank conversations about such things as Whizzinators, a device with many imitators to make fake urine to fool drug tests, and scary stories from drug court, the Cheyenne Mountain School District 12 board kept returning to these key points: Will random drug testing deter drug use and help the district find teens who need help to get clean?

"I think we need to digest all the information we got tonight and decide whether we want to move forward from the conceptual level, which is where weve been for several months," said Superintendent Walt Cooper. "Can we do this? Should we do this? I dont know the outcome."

Board member Rich Young and drug court Magistrate Lisa Kirkman agreed that drug testing is a deterrent, The Gazette reported, but school officials are still working to develop an appropriate program.

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